Grammar for Improving Writing & Reading Skills

by Whimbey, Arthur; Linden, Myra; Williams, Eugene, Sr.

• ISBN13: 9780970907509
• ISBN10: 0970907508
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-04-01
• Publisher: Bgf Performance Systems Llc
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Table of Contents

Unit 1 - Verbs in Basic Sentences
A Basic Sentence: Subject, Action Verb, Object	2	(4)
Sentences With Action Verbs Referring to the Past	6	(2)
Irregular Verbs: Past Tense	8	(2)
Intransitive Verbs	10	(2)
Verbs Representing a State of Being: Statives	12	(2)
The Helping Verb Will in Future Tense Verb Phrases	14	(2)
Special People (You and I) Require Special Verb Patterns	16	(6)
Unit 2 - A Special Verb: Be, Is, Was, Are, Were, and Its Other Forms
The Forms Is, Are, Was, and Were	22	(3)
Future Tense Verb Phrases: The Base Form Be	25	(2)
The Present Progressive Tense with a Singular Subject	27	(2)
The Present Progressive Tense with a Plural Subject	29	(2)
The Past Progressive Tense	31	(2)
Special People (You and I) Require Special Be Verb Patterns	33	(5)
Unit 3 - Nouns
Forming Plurals	38	(5)
Proper Nouns	43	(3)
Possessive Forms of Nouns	46	(4)
Unit 4 - Adjectives
Adding Adjectives to Sentences	50	(3)
Modifying One Noun with Two Adjectives	53	(2)
Modifying a Noun with Another Noun	55	(3)
Placing Two Adjectives After the Modified Noun	58	(2)
Making Comparisons with Adjectives	60	(6)
Unit 5 - Adverbs
Adverbs That Describe an Action and End in ly	66	(3)
Moving Adverbs	69	(2)
Adverbs Modifying Adjectives	71	(2)
Other Types of Adverbs	73	(6)
Unit 6 - Prepositions
Prepositional Phrases Modifying a Noun	79	(3)
Prepositional Phrases Modifying Actions or Events	82	(2)
Prepositional Phrases at the Beginning of a Sentence	84	(2)
Misplaced Prepositional Phrases	86	(2)
Prepositional Phrases Modifying Objects of Prepositional Phrases	88	(2)
Subject-Verb Agreement With an Intervening Prepositional Phrase	90	(5)
Unit 7 - Coordinating Conjunctions for Creating Compound Prases and Sentences
Joining Entire Sentences with And, Or, But, So, For, or Yet	95	(4)
Using And to Join the Subjects of Sentences with Identical Predicates	99	(3)
Using And to Combine Sentences with Identical Subjects but Different (or Partly Different) Predicates	102	(2)
Using Or to Join Sentences with Different Subjects but Identical Predicates	104	(2)
Using Or to Combine Sentences with Identical Subjects but Different (or Partly Different) Predicates	106	(2)
Using But to Combine Sentences that are Partly Identical and Partly Different	108	(2)
Using And to Combine Three Sentences or Parts of Sentences	110	(3)
Combining Sentences with Expressions Such As Along With and As Well As	113	(5)
Unit 8 - Pronouns
Personal Pronouns	118	(4)
Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions	122	(2)
Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement in Number	124	(3)
Correcting Ambiguous Pronouns	127	(2)
Possessive Pronouns	129	(3)
Demonstrative Pronouns	132	(4)
Unit 9 - Subordination and Complex Sentences
Independent Clauses, Dependent Clauses, and Patterns of Complex Sentences	136	(3)
Subordinating Conjunctions Expressing Time Relationships	139	(3)
Subordinating Conjunctions Expressing A Cause	142	(2)
A Conditional Subordinating Conjunction	144	(2)
A Subordinating Conjunction Expressing A Contrast	146	(4)
Unit 10 - Conjunctive Adverbs
Joining Sentences with a Semicolon, a Conjunctive Adverb, and a Comma	150	(3)
Using a Period, a Conjunctive Adverb and a Comma	153	(3)
Moving Conjunctive Adverbs	156	(4)
Unit 11 - The Colon and the Semicolon
The Colon	160	(3)
The Semicolon	163	(5)
Unit 12 - Relative Pronouns and Clauses
Using Which to Modify a Noun	168	(4)
Essential Relative Clauses Using Which	172	(3)
Using That in Essential Relative Clauses	175	(2)
Using Who in Relative Clauses	177	(3)
Replacing The Object of a Verb with Which	180	(4)
Unit 13 - Appositives
Adding An Appositive To a Sentence	184	(4)
Unit 14 - Using Have as a Main Verb and as a Helping Verb in Forming the Perfect Tenses
Singular and Plural Forms of Have	188	(2)
Using Have with the Special Subjects You and I	190	(2)
The Past Tense Form of Have: Had	192	(2)
Forming the Past Perfect Tense with Regular Verbs	194	(2)
Forming the Past Perfect Tense with Irregular Verbs	196	(3)
The Present Perfect Tense	199	(5)
Unit 15 - Using Do as a Main Verb and as a Helping Verb to Emphasize Ideas
The Present Tense Forms of Do	204	(3)
The Present Tense Form of Do with the Special Subjects You and I	207	(2)
The Past Tense of Do: Did	209	(2)
The Present Perfect Tense of the Verb Do	211	(2)
Using Did for Emphasis with a Past Tense Sentence	213	(2)
Using Do or Does for Emphasis With a Present Tense Sentence	215	(3)
Unit 16 - Quotation Marks and Underlining
Presenting a Quotation at the Beginning of a Sentence	218	(2)
Presenting a Quotation at the End of a Sentence	220	(3)
Splitting a Quoted Sentence	223	(2)
Indirect Quotation	225	(2)
Using Quotation Marks with Titles and Underlining	227